WBUR Buys 92.7 WMVY

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

I know of one station in Colorado who is rebroadcast on a translator
outside their 60DBU.. but the translator and full power stations, as best I
can tell.. are owned by exactly the same licensee/company.

Or how about a translator in Central Alabama whos application specifies the
off air pick up of a small Class A somewhere in middle Tennessee?

No, the FCC does not seem to check some of this stuff related to
translators.

I do think when a translator changes primary stations they have to file
something with the FCC. I can't swear to it, but I've seen a minor change
application for translators where the primary change. .but at the same
time, I am not sure if the primary was the only change on the application..
I wasn't technical enough to understand all that.

Paul

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>wrote:

> <<On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:06:53 -0600, scott@fybush.com said:
>
> > I had thought R-L was using FCC data to list translator stations'
> parents,
> > but that appears not to be the case. CDBS correctly shows the 100.7
> > translator with WCIB as its parent, but it shows the 93.9 as being fed by
> > WNCK Nantucket. R-L obviously doesn't have it that way, which tells me
> > that they're doing translator parents manually, and are behind the curve
> > on those.
>
> Stations are not required to report translator inputs in a
> standardized way except when filing certain other kinds of
> applications (CPs, AL/TC, and I think renewals), so the FCC doesn't
> actually track these changes in a formal way.  I think translator
> licensees are still required to report when they change their input
> signal, but only informally (as a letter), and these informal reports
> do not result in database updates.  (You may be able to see them as
> "imported letters", but my experience on that front has been rather
> hit-or-miss.)  I doubt that the Audio Division staff actually checks
> reported input stations for compliance with the rules.
>
> -GAWollman
>
>